We just had a massacre of cops in Dallas by a black power supporter.
Which Jews supported this murderous organization?
Brian Schaefer writes for Haaretz:
Reexamining the relationship between American Jews and race over the last decades, Haaretz looks at why Jews aren’t visible in the fight for racial justice today.
Two days after that event, three founders of Black Lives Matter were honored at the 25th anniversary celebration of the progressive organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. And in August, nearly 200 rabbis joined an NAACP march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C., part of a delegation organized by the Reform movement.
These and other smaller Jewish organizations that focus explicitly on social justice have been early and active allies of the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown in St. Louis, Eric Garner in New York and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, all unarmed black men who died under suspicious circumstances at the hands of police officers.
But many mainstream Jewish institutions, synagogues and leaders have been slow to support the movement and take significant action. The hesitation reflects a shift in communal priorities over the past half-century, as well as in collective American-Jewish identity.
